I would suggest neither of those, nor ninja nor anything but make. Whatever sucks about a simple/shallow stack, what sucks about tall fat stacks is worse.
In other news, I'd love to include this as a stack proposal next time I'm proposing a project through our corporate sausage factory, just to see how far I can get it before someone realises.
"... start mixing and matching pieces to build your own stack?"
Perhaps because the pieces are sort of like Legos; they're designed to be mixed and matched with known results.
I prefer Ramaze, because it's more like Play-doh to Merb's Legos (sort of; I realize that's an over-generalization), but Merb is not some random collection of libraries. It is (I think) more like Rails with deliberate decoupling of components.
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